“earth” (with a lowercase letter) means roughly the same thing as ground, land, soil, etc, just like “terre” in French.

'right' and 'droît' work the same way too. Right as in direction, right as in ethics, and right as in civics.

I love this in so many ways!

Wait there is more, a water landing is https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amerrissage (mer = sea)

On Titan, this could be called an améthanissage (for methane).